Take-Two is Having a Super Great Year as Grand Theft Auto V Surpasses 32.5 Million Units Sold

[Shawn Zipay]

The financial report for Take-Two's "Fiscal Third Quarter 2014" was released today. I won't bore you with the finer details. All you need to take away here is that Take-Two pulled in GAAP net revenues of $1.86 billion. That's compared to their previous quarter where they only pulled in $415.8 million.

So, why such a strong increase across the board? Well, Grand Theft Auto V had a huge hand in that, sure. There were, however, other big players for the company.

The largest contributors to net revenue in fiscal third quarter 2014 were Grand Theft Auto V®, NBA® 2K14, and WWE® 2K14. Non-GAAP net revenue from digitally-delivered content grew 42% year-over-year to $132.8 million, driven by the Grand Theft Auto series, the NBA 2K franchise, and offerings for Borderlands® 2 and BioShock® Infinite. Catalog sales accounted for $113.0 million of Non-GAAP net revenue led by offerings for Borderlands 2, the Grand Theft Auto series, XCOM®: Enemy Unknown, BioShock Infinite, and Sid Meier's Civilization® V.

Rockstar Games:

• Launched Grand Theft Auto Online, the dynamic and persistent online game, which is free with every copy of Grand Theft Auto V.
• Grand Theft Auto V finished as the best-selling video game of 2013.* To date, Grand Theft Auto V has sold-in more than 32.5 million units.
• Released Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for select iOS, Android, Amazon Kindle and Windows Phone devices.

2K:

• Launched NBA 2K14, which is the fastest-selling release in the history of our top-selling and top-rated NBA video game simulation franchise** that has sold-in nearly 35 million units to date. Developed by Visual Concepts, NBA 2K14 has already sold-in more than 5 million units and is Take-Two's first offering for the PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system and Xbox One, the all-in-one games and entertainment system from Microsoft. The title is also available for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.
• Launched WWE 2K14 for the Xbox 360 and PS3. Developed by Yukes, WWE 2K14 is being supported with downloadable add-on content, including a Season Pass.
• Released the Borderlands 2 Game of the Year Edition for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. Borderlands 2 is now the highest-selling title in 2K's history with more than 8.5 million units sold-in to date.
• Released XCOM: Enemy Within, the expanded experience of Firaxis Games' "Game of the Year" award-winning strategy title, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, for the Xbox 360, PS3, PC and Mac.
• Announced that Evolve is planned for launch on the Xbox One, PS4 and PC in fall 2014. Developed by Turtle Rock Studios, the renowned creators of Left 4 Dead, EvolveTM is an all-new shooter that blends cooperative and competitive multiplayer experiences.

For those that still don't get it. They made a crap load of money in the last quarter.